[00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast, which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, making it significantly easier to create WordPress websites with Playground. If …
Adam Back States ‘You Can’t Stop JPEGs on Bitcoin,’ Proposes Block Size Increase to Host Inscriptions
Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream and legendary cryptographer, has acknowledged that inscriptions, media embedded directly on top of Bitcoin, cannot be stopped, stating that any action focused on this will only prompt users to do it in “worse ways.” Instead, Back proposed adding a new blob of data to Bitcoin blocks dedicated to inscription purposes. […]
Adam Back Says ‘Suck That Truthoors’ as Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Reveals Company Holds Tether’s Treasuries
Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, a Wall Street private financial services company, has recently confirmed that they lent their services to Tether, the issuer of the biggest stablecoin in the cryptocurrency market. On CNBC’s Money Movers, Lutnick stated that he was a fan of Tether and that they held their treasuries. Cantor Fitzgerald CEO […]
Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson Clashes With Blockstream’s Adam Back Over Crypto Security Classification
Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of Input Output Global (IOHK) and the Cardano blockchain initiative, recently expressed his frustration in a video over the U.S. regulator’s decision to categorize the cryptocurrency cardano as a security. He’s perplexed and critical about the exemption of bitcoin from being tagged as a security, mocking the situation as a “pathetic joke” […]